Sony Trinitron Timeline Shows Why It Will Live Forever In Our Hearts
After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology, perhaps only second to the Walkman. Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet, despite the thin cables that secured in place its aperture grille. This timeline shows TV history since 1873, how colour TV became a reality in the 40s, and how Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies:
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[Wikipedia and Sony Japan]
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I have a 21 inch(?) Sony Trinitron TV. Over the last several days – the color has totally dropped out of all shows/channels – leaving a very nice black and white picture. My question is – is there a simple (read inexpensive) fix for this problem (i.e. trying to get the color back into the TV?) or is mother nature trying to tell me something!